Walk like old people

歩き方がじじーみたいと言われた。よく自分は両手を後ろにしてゆっくり歩くからだ。画が浮かばないかな。でも確かにその歩き方ってじじーっぽいかもしれない 笑

Someone told me that I walked like old people. Because I sometimes put my hands together behind my back when I walk. Do you see what I'm saying? Maybe it's difficult for you to get the picture but I agree many of old people walk that way lol

Christmas

日本でクリスマスイブといったら店を閉めてるレストランなんてあまり見ない。外食する人が多いから。レストランにとっては稼ぎ時なのかな。でもアメリカではほっとんどの店が閉まってた。街に人もあまり見かけなかった。家族で祝うイベントだからかな。

Christmas eve in Japan, almost every restaurant is be opened because people go out. So it's time for the restaurant to make some money. But in US, there were only a few restaurant was opened because people stay with their family.I didn't even see people walking in the city.　


Merry Christmas!

Japan comparing to US. 日本は便利すぎる

アメリカに来て改めて感じたこと。日本は便利すぎる。交通機関、スパー、コンビニなど... しかも今では（2013年12月現在）物価も日本のほうが間違いなく安い。特に食材。デフレが酷すぎるのか甘えすぎなのか 笑

Things I realized when I came to US. Living in Japan is too convenient comparing to living in US. Transportation, grocery store, convenience store....etc And even prices of commodities are  cheaper in Japan now (2013 Dec)  Especially grocery. Is it just deflation rate has been increasing or we've been just spoiled...lol　

   

Going away from Santa Monica

明日はオースティンへ行ってきますよ。ダラスはよく遊びにいったけどオースティンは初めて。とてもいい街だということ。寒いんだろうなー。少なくともここカリフォルニアよりは。20歳の時にパリスというテキサスの田舎町に住んでたから時間あったらまた行ってみたいな。色々変わってんのかな。でもサンタモニカもそうだったけど、20年前とそれほど変わってないんだよね。あ、そうだ、サンタモニカを歩き回った初日に以前住んでたアパートがまだあったよ。ちょっと感動してしまった。見た目も綺麗になってた。なんだか20年経っても2～3年前の事の様に思えるくらいあっという間だったな～。。。このくそじじーが・・・

I'll be heading to Austin tomorrow. I've been to Dalas a lot before but never been to Austin. People tell me it's very wonderful city. It should be cold there. At least colder than California. I used to live in Paris, TX when I was 20 years old. If I have time, I'd love to visit there again to see how it has changed. But, like Santa Monica, I guess I would not see so much changes. Oh, I found the apartment where I used to live in Santa Monica when I walked around the city on first day. It made me a little happy. It even looks much better now. It's been 20 years...? It's still like a few years ago to me... Man I'm getting old....

         

Everything becomes humor 日本語には向いてない？

他の国の文化に触れてるといろんな発見がある。ここアメリカでは自分にはないユ－モアが溢れている。ある人が僕の筋肉を使いたいとたずねて来た。最初は何が言いたいのかよくわからなかった。単純に一人では運べない重さのあるテーブルを移動させたかっただけ。状況をつかむまで5秒くらいかかったかな。もし日本で同じ状況になった場合、ほとんどの人が「テーブル動かすの手伝ってくれない？」と聞いてくるだろうなと思った。日本語と英語では言葉の遊び方が違うんだろうな

There are many things I can find whenever I saty in different culture. Here in US, I do feel inferior to people with humor issue. Someone just asked me if she could borrow my muscle. I had no idea what she's actually asking for. It was just she wanted to move wooden meeting table to the other side of the office. I took me 5 seconds to get an idea what she really meant. So come to think of it, if someone in Japan asked me the same thing, most people would just say something like `` Can you help us to move the table?''  There would be no humor.... I think each language makes many different results in many different situations.

　　

How many sides to this story 何だちみは

こういうのを見かけると色んな思い出が頭をよぎる。とにかく色んな事が。面白いもんだね。これで20年前のアメリカでの留学生活を色々と思い出すなんて。何気なし通った通りで見たこの光景には何か新鮮で親しみのある空気を感じた。歳かな・・・。

Oddly enough this kind of scene reminds me of many things. I think this is very interesting how this scene reminds me of many things that I've done as my exchange student in US about 20 years ago. I just passed through this road and found this sofa and I felt something like familiar ease? from this. Am I too old?....
　　　
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Grocery store

アメリカのごく一般的なスーパーでの野菜やお肉の価格が日本より高いのに少し驚いた。特に鶏肉は２割くらい高い気がした。気のせいかな。。。

Regular grocery store in America, I realized veggy and meat are a little more expensive than Japan. I thought it's cheeper... I might be wrong but I really felt it was a little more expensi. Especially chicken....

HANADAMA 花珠

皆さんは本物の花珠を実際に見たことある？もうね、神秘の美しさなんだよね。もしハゲるならいっそうのこと頭を花珠にしてくれ。                                                                                               

Have any of you ever seen a real HANADAMA with your naked eye? I have but only a few times. If I'm getting full-baldy, I would rather have my head as　HANADAMA.

親しらず My wisdom teeth

　　　
歯医者に行ったら虫歯を一つ持っていると告げられた。それとは別に何とも不思議な親しらの持ち主という事も判明した。レントゲン写真を見ると・・・抜くとなったら大手術になりそうだ・・・。僕は本当に人間なのだろうか？？？

I went to dentist to check my teeth. She told me that I had a cavity. Aside from it, she also told me that I had really strange wisdom teeth. I took a look at X-ray.... It is going to be extensive operation if I want to pull them out...　Am I really human being?????　　

Mac and me マックでキレた

マックで新作バーガーを注文した。しかし売り切れてもうないと店員に言われた。激しい怒が湧いてきた。売り切れてないなら一時的にでもメニューから外しておけという話で。

そんな夢を見た。リアルでそんなすぐにキレないよ。ただ変な夢だったなー。あれ？ビッグマック食べたくなってきたかも・・・はぁ

I went to Macdonalds and I ordered some kind of special burger. But shop stuff said they were out of the burger now. Then I pissed off with the shop for the fact which doesn't make sense because they still had it on the menu seat. They should have temporary taken away from the menu list. 

This is the dream I had .... No I'm not like this in real lol I just wonder why I had this kind of dream....Now I feel like some big mac....sigh

　　　　　　　　

Ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ Ｍｉｋａｎ

みかんは種もなく甘みと酸味のバランスが大切だーね。お正月にテレビ見ながら大人気のフルーツだーね。これもまた日本の風習だーね。

Mikan has both sweetness and sourness and usually seedless. We usually enjoy it on new year season while watching TV. Another typical Japanese thing.

世界一のバカ

世界一のバカになったよ。自分をここまで責めたことはない。冷やす頭もないわ。くたばれよ、俺。

しばらくの間はこんな気持ちから抜けきれないだろうなぁ。

Be a good person everyone! Keep yourself as you are :)

Lost money マネーマネー

So today I went to ATM to withdraw some money and I do remember I withdrew 12,000 yen (about 100 dollars) . And I don think I took the money from the machine.... I left there without the money... Of course there were nothing left when I came back to ATM... Story of my life.

L O L

えーと・・・本日ATMで1万2千円をおろしました。お金取らずにそのままそのATMを後にしたみたいです。後で気付いて戻ったってそりゃないっての。

笑

ちゃんちゃん♪